Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Brite
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. This is hilarious.

This is hilarious.

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
18 Posts 6 Posters 130 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • Doctor PhibesD Offline
    Doctor PhibesD Offline
    Doctor Phibes
    wrote last edited by
    #3

    I wonder if Candace's fanbase will notice the irony in what he's saying or take it literally.

    I was only joking

    1 Reply Last reply
    • HoraceH Offline
      HoraceH Offline
      Horace
      wrote last edited by
      #4

      My familiarity with Candace's wackier ideas extends as far as I listen directly to Candace. I've never heard anybody else propagate them. But I know she has a large listener base. So did Art Bell. That doesn't mean his listeners would have sworn up and down to the stuff he used to believe.

      Education is extremely important.

      Doctor PhibesD RenaudaR 2 Replies Last reply
      • KlausK Offline
        KlausK Offline
        Klaus
        wrote last edited by
        #5

        I wonder if she believes her own BS.

        HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
        • HoraceH Horace

          My familiarity with Candace's wackier ideas extends as far as I listen directly to Candace. I've never heard anybody else propagate them. But I know she has a large listener base. So did Art Bell. That doesn't mean his listeners would have sworn up and down to the stuff he used to believe.

          Doctor PhibesD Offline
          Doctor PhibesD Offline
          Doctor Phibes
          wrote last edited by Doctor Phibes
          #6

          @Horace said in This is hilarious.:

          My familiarity with Candace's wackier ideas extends as far as I listen directly to Candace. I've never heard anybody else propagate them. But I know she has a large listener base. So did Art Bell. That doesn't mean his listeners would have sworn up and down to the stuff he used to believe.

          Presumably at least some of her fans must believe her. I mean, flat-earthers are a thing, so why not the Magnificent Candace?

          I was only joking

          1 Reply Last reply
          • HoraceH Horace

            My familiarity with Candace's wackier ideas extends as far as I listen directly to Candace. I've never heard anybody else propagate them. But I know she has a large listener base. So did Art Bell. That doesn't mean his listeners would have sworn up and down to the stuff he used to believe.

            RenaudaR Offline
            RenaudaR Offline
            Renauda
            wrote last edited by
            #7

            @Horace

            But I know she has a large listener base. So did Art Bell. That doesn't mean his listeners would have sworn up and down to the stuff he used to believe.

            I recall sitting around a campfire one summer evening listening to a local farmer go on and on about the hidden and covered up truths showcased on Art Bell’s radio show - the mystery of Mel’s Hole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel's_Hole) in particular.

            Elbows up!

            1 Reply Last reply
            • KlausK Klaus

              I wonder if she believes her own BS.

              HoraceH Offline
              HoraceH Offline
              Horace
              wrote last edited by
              #8

              @Klaus said in This is hilarious.:

              I wonder if she believes her own BS.

              If you acknowledge that humans are believing machines more than truth seeking machines, the question loses relevance. People can be motivated by all the old standard things to believe whatever, and they can still believe it, in the face of an IQ and information that would logically contradict their belief.

              Education is extremely important.

              1 Reply Last reply
              • HoraceH Offline
                HoraceH Offline
                Horace
                wrote last edited by Horace
                #9

                One can imagine thought experiments, the classic gun-to-the-head scenario, where Candace is told to bet, one way or another, on the truth of a certain claim. Her children's lives are at stake. Would her bet be the same as Candace professed before? That thought experiment remains incoherent, because the gun-to-her-kid's-head Candace is not the same person as the Candace in front of the microphone. You are interrogating the belief of one thing, and assuming it's the same as the belief of the other thing. The difference between the two things is interesting, and predictable, but it does not impute true "belief" to one or the other. Their motivations are different, and belief is generally motivated.

                Education is extremely important.

                RenaudaR 1 Reply Last reply
                • jon-nycJ Offline
                  jon-nycJ Offline
                  jon-nyc
                  wrote last edited by
                  #10

                  Heraclitus tells us you can’t interrogate the same Candice Owens twice.

                  “In the 25 years that I served in the United States Congress, Republicans never, ever, one time agreed on what a health care proposal should look like. Not once.”

                  • Former Speaker of the House John Boehner
                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • HoraceH Horace

                    One can imagine thought experiments, the classic gun-to-the-head scenario, where Candace is told to bet, one way or another, on the truth of a certain claim. Her children's lives are at stake. Would her bet be the same as Candace professed before? That thought experiment remains incoherent, because the gun-to-her-kid's-head Candace is not the same person as the Candace in front of the microphone. You are interrogating the belief of one thing, and assuming it's the same as the belief of the other thing. The difference between the two things is interesting, and predictable, but it does not impute true "belief" to one or the other. Their motivations are different, and belief is generally motivated.

                    RenaudaR Offline
                    RenaudaR Offline
                    Renauda
                    wrote last edited by
                    #11

                    @Horace

                    What a tortuous way of reaffirming Klaus’ trenchant rhetorical question.

                    Elbows up!

                    HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
                    • RenaudaR Renauda

                      @Horace

                      What a tortuous way of reaffirming Klaus’ trenchant rhetorical question.

                      HoraceH Offline
                      HoraceH Offline
                      Horace
                      wrote last edited by
                      #12

                      @Renauda said in This is hilarious.:

                      @Horace

                      What a tortuous way of reaffirming Klaus’ trenchant rhetorical question.

                      No, that's bullshit. I interrogated the trenchant question. You're welcome to do so yourself. I didn't get any of those insights from books.

                      Education is extremely important.

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      • RenaudaR Offline
                        RenaudaR Offline
                        Renauda
                        wrote last edited by Renauda
                        #13

                        Regardless, it was still a tortuous interrogation.

                        And no, I’m not all that interested.

                        Elbows up!

                        HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
                        • RenaudaR Renauda

                          Regardless, it was still a tortuous interrogation.

                          And no, I’m not all that interested.

                          HoraceH Offline
                          HoraceH Offline
                          Horace
                          wrote last edited by
                          #14

                          @Renauda said in This is hilarious.:

                          Regardless, it was still a tortuous interrogation.

                          And no, I’m not all that interested.

                          Well the human condition does not rise large over your persona here, unless it's the fact that rage and vindictiveness dominates.

                          Education is extremely important.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          • RenaudaR Offline
                            RenaudaR Offline
                            Renauda
                            wrote last edited by
                            #15

                            Would you like a saddle for your high horse?

                            Elbows up!

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            • HoraceH Offline
                              HoraceH Offline
                              Horace
                              wrote last edited by
                              #16

                              No I probably just want to fight there, and then I'd die. You know, the human condition.

                              Education is extremely important.

                              1 Reply Last reply
                              • RenaudaR Offline
                                RenaudaR Offline
                                Renauda
                                wrote last edited by
                                #17

                                Yes, of course. You’ll get over it.

                                Elbows up!

                                1 Reply Last reply
                                • Doctor PhibesD Offline
                                  Doctor PhibesD Offline
                                  Doctor Phibes
                                  wrote last edited by
                                  #18

                                  So we have to choose between a Candace who is a cynical liar and one who is completely fucking nuts.

                                  Neither seems like a good reason to listen to her show.

                                  I was only joking

                                  1 Reply Last reply
                                  Reply
                                  • Reply as topic
                                  Log in to reply
                                  • Oldest to Newest
                                  • Newest to Oldest
                                  • Most Votes


                                  • Login

                                  • Don't have an account? Register

                                  • Login or register to search.
                                  • First post
                                    Last post
                                  0
                                  • Categories
                                  • Recent
                                  • Tags
                                  • Popular
                                  • Users
                                  • Groups